Letter: Changing state constitution could increase voter fraud

Published 2:43 pm, Wednesday, October 29, 2014

To the Editor:

The 2014 Connecticut election is not just important because it will select who will govern us and write laws for the next two years. There is a proposed Connecticut Constitutional amendment on the ballot. As the law is presently written, Connecticut’s Constitution states how and when people may vote. The proposed amendment would allow our Democratic Party controlled state legislature to change constitutional law into something that can be changed at the whim of the legislature.

This proposed change is nothing but a solution in search of a problem. Connecticut does not need early voting, unlimited, unrestricted absentee ballots or any other method of voting that will only increase the potential for voter fraud and increase the costs of elections to our cities and towns. Perhaps the state legislature could increase the penalty for voter fraud to include upon conviction of a first offense to a five-year ban on voting and for a second offense a lifetime ban. Too many men have fought and died to maintain our freedom for it to be stolen by political action committees. One person, one vote. That’s the law. It should be rigorously enforced.